untheatrical
- a word derived from theatrical.
Example Sentences
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Not only are the 16 songs banal, but they’re untheatrical: Virtually all of them are here’s-how-I’m-feeling-right-this-second power ballads that stop the action of the show dead instead of pushing it forward to the final curtain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2018
The premiere was at Rome Opera in 1997, and it was dismissed as untheatrical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2014
Even superb performances by Daniil Simkin and Sarah Lane in the Bluebird pas de deux felt curiously untheatrical.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2010
The result is a very untheatrical stage symmetry, rather than the jagged off-centre focus that theatre designers typically prefer.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2010
My conception of the theatrical theatre may not be exactly the same as M. Sarcey's; but at all events I share his abhorrence of the untheatrical theatre.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William
